Microsoft Office Powerpoint Viewer

Unlocking Your Data

It is frustrating when you don't have the right application to open a file with. When someone sends you a PowerPoint or Publisher file and you don't own the program, you will find it difficult to open the file unless you know some of the small business technology tricks of the trade.

In this column, I'll show you tried and true ways to get access to just about any document regardless of the software you have on hand.

Try the easy solution first

Before you get started searching around for a solution for opening a file that you don't have the corresponding small business software application for, see if what you do have on hand will work. This is the "try like with like" solution - typically most word processors can read and display another word processor's document format and spreadsheets can understand each other and so on.

So, when you're stuck with a file for which you don't have a matching application, try the corresponding application you do have.

Can't see the file?

To get access to, say, a document created in a word processor you don't own, start by opening your word processor and choose File > Open. Your program will probably filter the files you see in its open dialog so you see only its own files. Look for a button or option to choose to see other formats and select the one that matches the extension of the file you have.

For example, if you open Microsoft Word's file list you'll see that it can read Works, WordPerfect, Open Document and a range of other file types. Select your file type, select your file and click Open. Most programs work in a similar way to this.

Programs like Word can open documents created in a range of other word processing programs

New file formats

One time when you'll encounter difficulty is when a program releases a new document format such as happened with Office 2007. For some time after Office 2007 launched no other program would open the new format files.

Download Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer - 2003, 2007, 2010

Undoubtedly MS Powerpoint is one of the best software to create presentation, slides for Students, Professionals and for Business.

Powerpoint is not a free download software so you need to buy it in order to use it but you can also download the free trial from Microsoft.com downloads page.

If you are someone who rarely uses Powerpoint for their work and just want to open ppt and pptx files then PowerPoint viewer is your best option. First of all the software is free to download and also it is a very useful software as well.

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If you already have Powerpoint then why not try these Powerpoint Shortcuts !

Powerpoint Viewer 2007 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=6

Powerpoint Viewer 2010 Download (recommended): http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13

The Powerpoint Viewer 2010 is compatible with the following versions of the files they were created in:

The Microsoft Powerpoint viewer 2010 works with Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows server 2003 and 2008. You can open presentations in the following formats: .ppt, .pptx, .pptm, .pot, .potx, .potm, .pps, .ppsx and .ppsm file extensions.

Powerpoint Viewer is 60 MB .exe file, so just download the software and double click on it to install it. Once you are done you can open any Powerpoint files and presentations without downloading the MS Powerpoint full version software.

You can learn more interesting stuffs about Powerpoint from this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.

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